Monday after the Second Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on June 27, 2022 by under
Scripture: St. Matthew 7:7-11 (NKJV)
7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”
Devotion
Even us poor sinners know how to give good gifts to those who ask. We do not deceive our children by giving them one thing when they have asked for another. If they ask for bread, we do not give them a stone. If they ask for fish, we do not give them a serpent. We give the ones we love the things for which they ask. We do this even though we are full of sin. Even though original sin inheres in us, we still know how to give good things to those who ask of us.
How much more so is this with the Lord? In Him is no guile whatsoever. He is holy and just. He is faithful. He will give us what we ask for in prayer. Our Lord Jesus tells us how to pray. We are to ask, seek, and knock. These things show diligence and persistence. We are to ask with great concern and consideration. This is what it means to seek. But our Lord adds that we are to knock, that is, that we are to ask and seek from our Lord with great intensity and passion. That which we are to ask, seek, and knock for from our Lord is the pearls that should not be cast before swine. We are to ask diligently for forgiveness, life, and salvation. These things our Lord will gladly and willingly give to all those who ask.
Prayer: O Lord, Who never failest to help and govern those whom Thou dost bring up in Thy steadfast fear and love: Make us to have a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
